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Critical Issues Confronting China Series: China – A Bullish Case
Critical Issues Confronting China Series: China – A Bullish Case
Speaker: Chen Zhao, recently retired as Co-Head of Macro Research, Brandywine Global Investment Management; former Partner, Managing Editor and Chief Global Strategist at BCA Research Group Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center […]
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series: The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom
Critical Issues Confronting China Series: The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom
Speaker: John Pomfret, Author of The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present and Chinese Lessons; former Washington Post correspondent Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center […]
Reporting from China: A Conversation with New York Times Correspondent David Barboza
Reporting from China: A Conversation with New York Times Correspondent David Barboza
Speaker: David Barboza, New York Times reporter and 2016 Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow at Harvard's Nieman Foundation Join David Barboza for a discussion about the challenges and opportunities of reporting from China. Prior […]
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Unpacking China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Its Energy and Environmental Implications
Unpacking China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Its Energy and Environmental Implications
Speaker: Weidong Liu, Professor in Economic Geography, Assistant Director, and Chair of the Center for the Belt and Road Initiative, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of […]
Establishing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: The Lawyer’s View
Establishing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: The Lawyer’s View
Speaker: Natalie Lichtenstein, Adjunct Professor of China Studies, Johns Hopkins University; Inaugural General Counsel, AIIB (retired) Chair: Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University […]
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Chinese Religions Seminar: Illness, Healing, and Ritual in Chinese Religion
Chinese Religions Seminar: Illness, Healing, and Ritual in Chinese Religion
Participants: Jessey Choo, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey TJ Hinrichs, Cornell University Antje Richter, University of Colorado Stephen Teiser, Princeton University Organizers: Michael Puett, Harvard University Robert Weller, […]
Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections
Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections
Workshop for Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections, organized by Professor David Der-wei Wang.
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Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections
Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections
Workshop for Taiwan Studies: New Directions and Connections, organized by Professor David Der-wei Wang.
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Modern China Lecture: Governing the Souls of Chinese Modernity
Modern China Lecture: Governing the Souls of Chinese Modernity
Speaker: Andrew Kipnis, Professor of Anthropology in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University Philippe Descola argues that human societies can be categorized by the ways in which they utilize broad assumptions about interiority and physicality, where interiority refers to something similar to what Edward Tyler and James Frazer meant by […]
History in Images, History in Words: In Search of Facts in Documentary Filmmaking
History in Images, History in Words: In Search of Facts in Documentary Filmmaking
Speaker: Carma Hinton, Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies, George Mason University Comments by: Gerald Peary, Suffolk University Sponsored by the BU’s Pardee School of Global Studies Center for the […]
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The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao
The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao
Speaker: Ian Johnson is a Pulitzer-Prize winning writer focusing on society, religion, and history. He works out of Beijing and Berlin, where he also teaches and advises academic journals and think […]
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Environment in Asia Seminar: “Layer upon Layer: Experience, Ecology, Engineering, Heritage, and (most of all) History in the Making of China’s Agricultural Terraces”
Environment in Asia Seminar: “Layer upon Layer: Experience, Ecology, Engineering, Heritage, and (most of all) History in the Making of China’s Agricultural Terraces”
Speaker: Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts Amherst Professor Schmalzer's research focuses on social, cultural, and political aspects of the history of science in modern China. Her first book, The People's Peking Man: […]
Critical Issues Confronting China Series: China – End of the Reform Era
Critical Issues Confronting China Series: China – End of the Reform Era
Speaker: Professor Carl Minzner, Fordham University School of Law Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center
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Modern China Lecture Series: Ryōdōraku (良導絡) in New China: Sino-Japanese Medical Exchange in the 1950s and the Role of Machines in East Asian Medical Modernity
Modern China Lecture Series: Ryōdōraku (良導絡) in New China: Sino-Japanese Medical Exchange in the 1950s and the Role of Machines in East Asian Medical Modernity
Speaker: Ruth Rogaski, Vanderbilt University In December of 1957, a medical delegation from the People’s Republic of China visited Japan as part of a decade-long series of semi-official cultural exchanges between the two former enemies. The delegation brought back a “Nakatani Ryōdōraku electrodermometer”—a scientific apparatus which, according to its inventor, Nakatani Yoshio, could be used […]
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series: China’s Economic Statecraft in Asia and Europe
Critical Issues Confronting China Series: China’s Economic Statecraft in Asia and Europe
Speaker: Dr. James Reilly, Associate Professor, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center
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The February 28th Incident: Imperial Legacies and War Aftermath in Taiwan, 1947
The February 28th Incident: Imperial Legacies and War Aftermath in Taiwan, 1947
Speaker: Victor Louzon, Postdoctoral Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University The February 28th Incident, as the 1947 Taiwanese rebellion against Guomindang rule and its bloody suppression are known, is perhaps the most notorious episode in modern Taiwanese history. This talk offers new insights on this event, exploring the dynamics of decolonization and demobilization […]
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State Legitimation and Popular Political Participation in the Early Modern Era: England 1560-1640, Japan 1660-1868, and China 1720-1840
State Legitimation and Popular Political Participation in the Early Modern Era: England 1560-1640, Japan 1660-1868, and China 1720-1840
Professor Wenkai He, Radcliffe/Yenching Fellow, Harvard University; Associate Professor, Hong Kong University Science and Technology, Division of Social Science Chair: Professor David Howell, Professor of Japanese History, Department of East […]
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China’s Banking Transformation: The Untold Story
China’s Banking Transformation: The Untold Story
Speaker: James Stent, Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of XacBank of Mongolia. Pundits have been predicting the impending collapse of the Chinese banking system. The collapse has […]
“Behemoth”: Film Screening and Discussion with Director Zhao Liang
“Behemoth”: Film Screening and Discussion with Director Zhao Liang
Beginning with a mining explosion in Mongolia and ending in a ghost city west of Beijing, documentarian Zhao Liang’s new film Behemoth details, in one breathtaking sequence after another, the social and environmental devastation driven by the totality of humankind’s desire and greed. After the screening, Director Liang will attend via Skype for a discussion with […]
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Trump and Asia: Business as Usual? U.S.-Asia Business and Trade in the Trump Era
Trump and Asia: Business as Usual? U.S.-Asia Business and Trade in the Trump Era
The "Trump and Asia" series continues with with a look at international business and trade between the U.S. and Asia.
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series: Corruption in China on the Eve of the 19th Party Congress
Critical Issues Confronting China Series: Corruption in China on the Eve of the 19th Party Congress
Speaker: Michael Forsythe, The New York Times Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center
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Gender Studies Workshop: Women and Friendship in Dynastic China
Gender Studies Workshop: Women and Friendship in Dynastic China
Participants: Beverly Bossler, University of California, Davis Ron Egan, Stanford University Grace Fong, McGill University Eileen Chow, Duke University Maram Epstein, University of Oregon Xu Man, Tufts University Organized by: Wai Yee Li, Harvard University Ellen Widmer, Wellesley College AGENDA 12:45-1:00 p.m. Welcoming remarks First Panel Chair: Wai-yee Li Discussant: Xu Man […]
Ecologies of Enclosure: Reconfiguring the Black Soldier Fly for Urban Waste Management in Guangzhou
Ecologies of Enclosure: Reconfiguring the Black Soldier Fly for Urban Waste Management in Guangzhou
Speaker: Amy Zhang, Fairbank Center An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow
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Reischauer Lecture Series – Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
Reischauer Lecture Series – Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
Day One Focus: China and Korea from 1392 (the beginning of the Choson state) to the late 19th century May 1, 2017 | 4pm - 6pm Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South […]
China Humanities Seminar: Forging a Master Key: Li Yu’s 李漁 Theory of Universal Theater
China Humanities Seminar: Forging a Master Key: Li Yu’s 李漁 Theory of Universal Theater
Speaker: S.E. Kile, University of Michigan Studies of Li Yu’s theorization of playwriting and theatrical performance have generally focused on his creation of a new technical vocabulary for playwriting and performance, the relationship between his theory’s tenets and his own playwriting practice, and the impact of profit-seeking on his ideas. I propose that using technology […]
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Reischauer Lecture Series – Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
Reischauer Lecture Series – Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
Day Two Focus: Late 19th Century and 20th Century Speaker: Odd Arne Westad is the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University, where he teaches at the Kennedy School of […]
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series: Fifty Years with China – A Canadian Perspective
Critical Issues Confronting China Series: Fifty Years with China – A Canadian Perspective
Speaker: Bernard Frolic, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, York University Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard University Asia Center
Reischauer Lecture Series – Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
Reischauer Lecture Series – Empire and Righteous Nation: 600 Years of China-Korea Relations
Day Three Focus: China’s relations with North and South Korea Today Speaker: Odd Arne Westad is the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University, where he teaches at the […]
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